The best type and the most profitable membership site you could ever create is what’s called an accountability blog. This is a blog where you are accountable for the things you do every single day. You set it up exactly the same as any other membership site, but this is a membership site that only you are going to log into. In this site, you’re going to post your four daily tasks to make sure that you get at least four things completed everyday, it’s going to give you mutual motivation if you let other business partners inside that blog, and it’s going to measure your progress. You can look back on any day of the week or any month or even last year and figure out exactly how much stuff you got accomplished each and everyday.
So, you set up this membership site and you are the only subscriber to this membership site. Nobody else can buy in, there’s no way to register, you are right now the only subscribe to the site. So, what do you do? Well what you do is you make one single post in the site and you list out four things you’re going to complete today. That’s it. Four things. Not six, not eight, not two – four simple things you’re going to complete today in your business. I’m not saying these are going to be the only four things you’ll do today. These are just four of the most important things you will do today.
An example for one of my days might look like “send an email to my list, write five new articles, record one new how-to video, and answer all customer support that comes in today.” It does not include non-business-related tasks. So, you wouldn’t put things like eat dinner, send thank you cards, wrap presents – none of that, only things that are in your business. Don’t do five, do exactly four. So that way, you’re guaranteed to at least finish four things. I found if I have less than four things, I’ll spend all day on just one or two tasks, which is not good. And if put six, seven, or eight things per day on the blog, then I won’t even get four things then because it will be too overwhelming.
Once you start posting your four daily tasks for a while, if you have another business partner, give them access to this blog. I definitely would not post your to-do list out in the open where other people can see it who you don’t trust because you don’t want to divulge your future business plans to anybody. But if you have a business partner, give them access and have them post four daily tasks as well. The interesting thing about this is even if they don’t necessarily read your tasks everyday, just the fact that they might read it will keep you motivated enough to complete those four daily tasks.
Finally, you can measure progress. So, if you feel like last week you didn’t get as much done as you thought, go back and look at last week. You will be surprised. If you feel like on a certain day of the week or a certain week of the month, you don’t get that much stuff accomplished, go back and look at your accountability blog so you can know for sure, you can know if you really don’t get as much done or if you get more done at night or more done on Tuesdays, you can know for sure, you can have the facts and see what exactly you completed in this accountability blog.
So, an accountability blog is a simple membership site that nobody else can buy into, that nobody else can register in except you. You’re the one member and you go and you post your four daily tasks and let a trusted business partner see your to-do list items as well.
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